“Spoof text”
Submitted To Comply One Of The Tasks English
Teacher : Mr. Syakur, S.Pd
Compiled
by :
1. Ajeng M. R. Maharani
2. Anis Maulidah Hasanah
3. Laili Zahrotul Muftiroh
ISLAMIC
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL OF SALAFIYAH
KAJEN,
MARGOYOSO, PATI
2015-2016
Spoof Text
Many Indonesian
students ask, “what is funny?” or they say “I don’t think the story is funny”.
Yes, most of Indonesian students do not like spoof text and most of them cannot
answer if there is a teacher asks them ‘what is spoof text?’
This thing happens because there are some differences between our culture and
English culture. What English people think funny is not funny for us. That is
why sometimes students do not laugh when they read spoof texts, actually, it
will be better if we learn about western cultures, so we can understand each
other and avoid misunderstandings. Like or not, they should stay learn about
what is spoof text because this text is one of the text that has to be learnt
in senior high school.
Spoof is the
type of story which has a twist (funny part in the end of the story). It
contains an unpredicatable event which makes the story funny. Th main
characteer of twist in a funny story should be unpredicatable and funny.
Spoof
is a text wich tells what happened in the past with unpredictable and funny
ending. Its function is to entertain the readers with humorous story.
Spoof
text is very similiar to recount text. Both spoof recount tell about the past
even in cronological order. The ending makes the difference.
A funny story is often
called a spoof. It retells an event with a humorous twist. That’s why the story
is funny. Sometimes we can also find a sp oof in a short conversation or in a
cartoon.
Generic Structure of
Spoof
1. Orientation; is a opening part which
tells us the issue or the problem that will be solved or told in the story.
Orientation gives us the important thing about the characters and their
problems.
2. Events; parts where the story
explained into paragraphs that linked each other. Events are not limited into
one or two scene or act. Events also adds more specific problems that happened,
explains how the problems raise, and the dilema.
3. Twist; will be explained in the next
page. Twist can only be found in spoof texts.
Language features of
spoof:
1. Focusing on people, animals, or certains
things
2. Using action verb: ate, ran, etc
3. Using the past tense
4. Told in cronological.
The Example of spoof
text :
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