Versimilitude: The quality of realism in a work that persuades the reader that he/she is getting a vision of life as it really is.
Example: "The louder she screamed, the harders he whipped; and where the blood ran faster, there he whipped longest. He would whip her to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome by fatigue, would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cowskin..."
In this scene Douglass saw for the first time how cruel a slave was treated. From there he was what was coming for him. He knew that he soon was going to be treated just like her aunt.
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