Pengertian dan Contoh Spoof Text

A. Pengertian dan Definisi Spoof Text
Selain Narrative Text, Recaunt Text, dan Anecdote Text, Spoof Text juga termasuk ke dalam golongan Narration, yang tentunya menceritakan kejadian di masa lampau dengan akhir yang lucu dan tidak disangka-sangka.
Disebutkan dalam Cambridge Advance Learner's Dictionary Online, ada dua makna spoof. Pertama, sebagai kata benda, spoof bermakna, "a funny and silly piece of writing, music, theatre, etc. that copies the style of an original work". Sedang kedua, spoof sebagai kata kerja, bermakna, "to try to make someone believe in something that is not true, as a joke."

Dari kedua arti spoof di atas, dapat disimpulkan bahwa pengertian spoof text adalah sebuah teks yang berisi tentang humor meski sebagian teksnya sudah dimodifikasi dari aslinya.

B. Tujuan Komunikatif Spoof Text
Tentunya semua jenis teks yang tergolong Narration memiliki tujuan komunikatif yang sama, begitu juga pada Spoof Text, yaitu untuk menghibur pembaca atau pendengar. Teks ini memiliki ciri khas yaitu terdapat bagian lucu yang menghibur di bagian akhir daripada cerita tersebut.
 
C. Generic Structure of Spoof Text
Terdapat tiga jenis struktur kebahasaan yang dimiliki oleh Spoof Text, yaitu:
1. Orientation
Seperti halnya jenis teks Narration yang lain, selalu diawali dengan orientation. Orientation adalah bagian di mana penulis memulai memperkenalkan tokoh, latar, dll dalam cerita.
2. Events
Bagian Events yaitu bagian di mana penulis menceritakan kejadian-kejadian dalam cerita tersebut tetapi kejadian yang diceritakan masih kejadian yang wajar.
3. Twist
Dan bagian dari Spoof Text yang terakhir adalah Twist. Twist merupakan bagian teks yang mana menceritakan kebalikan dari kejadian-kejadian wajar di bagian Events. Twist merupakan bagian akhir dari Spoof Text yang menceritakan kejadian akhir lucu dan tidak disangka-sangka sebelumnya.

D. Ciri Kebahasaan Spoof Text
Terdapat beberapa ciri kebahasaan Spoof Text yang bisa membedakan dengan Jenis Teks Bahasa Inggris (Types of Text) yang lainnya, yaitu:
1. Menggunakan Past Tense; was, were, did, etc.
2. Menggunakan kata kerja aksi (action verb); did, went, walked, etc.
3. Menggunakan kata keterangan waktu dan kata keterangan tempat.
4. Diceritakan secara kronologis.


Di bawah ini adalah contoh Spoof Text

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.”

(Re-written from http://www.onlyfunnystories.com)

Orientation: The above story talks about a wife and his husband who loves money too much even up to his death. Events: Several events are explored in chronological way which able to arrange the story read nicely. Promising with her money miser husband, Putting the box inside casket, locking and rolling the casket are the events which build the complete story. Twist: When reading the above story, for the first, readers likely think that the wife would put all the money instead of just a check

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