SPOOF TEXT

By : Faiz Naufal Falah

A. DEFINITION OF SPOOF
Spoof text is a type of text that is considered the most fun to learn. Spoof text
is a type of English text which contains funny stories. The communicative purpose of
this type of text is to entertain the reader or hear from the story.
B. FUNCTION OF SPOOF
To entertain the readers with funny story.
C. GENERIC STUCTURE OF SPOOF
There are three linguistic structures owned by spoof text, namely:
1. Orientation
As with other types of narrative text, spoof text also begins with orientation,
which is the part where the writer begins to introduce the story by introducing
characters, settings, etc.
2. Events
In this section the author tells about events that are still in normal occurrence.
3. Twists
Twist is the part of the text that tells the opposite of the natural events in the
events section. Twist is the final part of the spoof text which tells a funny and
unexpected ending.
D. GRAMMAR FEATURE OF SPOOF
The grammar feature of spoof are :
1. Using past tense
2. Using action verbs
3. Use adverbs of time and place
4. Narrated chronologically
 E. EXAMPLE OF SPOOF
Green Pink and Yellow
Can you name the colors in English? Yes, you’re right. Blue, red, yellow, and
so on. By the way, I have funny story about the colors. Do you want to hear it? Okay,
listen to me carefully.
One day, an English teacher was explaining about colors to his students.
After he had finished explaining, he asked his students. “Who can make a sentence
using the words green, pink, and yellow?”
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Kris the cleverest student in the class, quickly raised up his hand and answered,
“when the yellow morning sun comes, I see a beautiful girl wearing a pink dress
walking through the green grass”.
“Great! Kris, you are a very good student.” said the teacher.
“Me, me, sir” Niel, the most stupid student in the class said while rising his hand. And
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the said, “I heard the telephone was ringing green …… green, then I pink up the receiver
and I said “Yellow, who’s speaking there?”
 NARRATIVE TEXT
A. DEFINITION OF NARRATIVE TEXT
Narrative text is a story with complication or problematic events and it tries to
find the resolutions to solve the problems. An important part of narrative text is the
narrative mode, the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a
process narration.
B. FUNCTION OF NARRATIVE TEXT

The function of Narrative text is To tell stories or present events and entertain
the readers.

C. GENERIC STUCTURE
Generic structure of narrative text has four components that is orientation,
complication, and resolution, Reorientation.
1. Orientation
Orientation is an opening text that introduces the characters , when it happened,
and the location of the background of the incident (who, when, where)
2. Complication
Complications are located after orientation and consist of paragraphs describing
the original problem. Complication is a problem that located at beginning of the
storyline which continues to the conflict, climax and anticlimactic of a story.
3. Resolution
Resolution is a paragraph that becomes the end of the story, which became the
completion and ends of a story. The problems that exist in a narrative text must be
resolved and closed with a happy ending or even tragic or sad ending.
 D. GRAMMAR FEATURE
1. Using past tense
2. Using adverbs of time
3. Using noun phrases
4. Using direct dialogue
5. Using action verbs
6. Using conjunctions of time

E. EXSAMPLE
A Boy Who Cried Wolf
In a village, lived a carefree boy with his father. The boy’s father told him that
he was old enough to watch over the sheep while they graze in the fields. Every day,
he had to take the sheep to the grassy fields and watch them as they graze.
However, the boy was unhappy and didn’t want to take the sheep to the fields.
He wanted to run and play, not watch the boring sheep graze in the field. So, he
decided to have some fun. He cried, “Wolf! Wolf!” until the entire village came
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running with stones to chase away the wolf before it could eat any of the sheep.
When the villagers saw that there was no wolf, they left muttering under their
breath about how the boy had wasted their time. The next day, the boy cried once
more, “Wolf! Wolf!” and, again, the villagers rushed there to chase the wolf away.
The boy laughed at the fright he had caused. This time, the villagers left angrily.
The third day, as the boy went up the small hill, he suddenly saw a wolf attacking
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his sheep. He cried as hard as he could, “Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!”, but not a single
villager came to help him.