Spoof Text

Dalam bahasa Indonesia, spoof text adalah teks lelucon

Spoof is a text which tells factual story, happened in the past time with unpredictable and funny ending. Its social function is to entertain and share the story. ( Spoof adalah sebuah teks yang memberitahukan cerita yang sesungguhnya, terjadi di waktu lampau dengan akhir yang tak terduga dan lucu. )

A. Generic Structure of Spoof ( Struktur Umum dari Spoof )
1. Orientation ( Pembukaan )
2. Events ( Peristiwa - peristiwa )
3. Twist ( Pelintir )

B. Language Feature of Spoof ( Ciri Bahasa dari Spoof )
1. Focusing on people, animals or certain things ( Berpusat pada orang - orang, binatang - binatang atau hal - hal tertentu )
2. Using action verb : ate, ran, etc ( Menggunakan kata kerja tingkah laku : ate, ran dan lain - lain )
3. Using adverb of time and place ( Menggunakan keterangan waktu dan tempat )
4. Told in chronological order ( Diberitahukan dalam urutan kronologis )

Example

Loving Money Too Much

There was a man who liked money very much. He worked all of his life and wanted to save all of his money for his own future. He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than just about anything.

Even, just before he died, he said to his wife; "Now listen, when I die, I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. I wanna take my money to the afterlife." So he asked his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died, she would put all the money in the casket with him.

Well, one day, he really died. Then he was stretched out in the casket. The wife was sitting there in black clothes next to her closest friend. When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said "Wait just a minute!"

She had a box in her hands. She came over with the box and placed it in the casket. After that the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away. Not long after that, her friend said, "I hope you were not crazy enough to put all that money in the casket."

The wife turned to her friend and replied; "Yes, because I have promised." Then she continued; "I can't lie. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him." Feeling shocked, her friend said; "You mean that you have put every cent of his money in the casket with him?" Then the wife answered; "Surely I did. I got it all together, put all the money into my account and I just wrote him a check."