ANECDOTE TEXT

DEFINIFITION
Anecdote is from the word anecdota it means “unpublished”, this term
use for a secret story or a personal story. But then there is a shift in
meaning and understanding of terms & Anecdote become a funny story.
Anecdote Textt is a text who retells an amusing story or an unusual story
either a fact or imagination.
 PURPOSE
The purpose is to tell a event in the past for the purpose to entertain the
reader or listener with a story that can make people laugh with retells a
unsual or amusing story to entertain the reader and the listener
 GENERIC STRUCTURE
Abstract
In this part the writer will start writing with introducing something
unique in brief to attract attention reader or listener how did that happen.
Usually the writer will start it with giving a question.
Orientation
After making reader curious, then the writer will start introducing the
place, time & figure from the text
Crisis
In this part the writer empasize uniqeness & oddness so the curiosty of
the readers will become higher
Reaction 
This part is when the writer end the curiosty about something unique in
the story with tell the person how to solve the problem that happened.
And in this part Readers usually will get the problem solving with a
funny ending.

Coda 
The conclusion that can be pull from the funny story usually will attract
greater laughter from the audience. However this part doesn’t necessarily
have to be in this text.
 CHARACTERISIC
• Use Past Tense (Waktu lampau), as simple past tense, past continuous
maupun past perfect tense.
Ex: Last night, I met a beautiful girl wearing swimsuit in the middle of
crowded people.
• Use conjuction of time (kata sambung waktu) A conjuctions that show
sequence of event, as: then, afterward, before, after.
• Use rhetoric question, A question that sometimes don’t need answer
because the questioner know better about the answer. This is just to
interact with the audience
Ex: Do you know why? (tahukah kamu kenapa?)
• Use exclamation (kata seru) ex: what a bad day! (benar-benar hari
yang buruk)
• Use intensity word (kata yang menunjukkan intensitas untuk
mendramatisir cerita). as: very, much and etc.
• Use action verb (kata kerja aksi), as: went, writed, etc
• Use imperative sentence (kalimat perintah), as: listen to this.
As Example :

Fisherman
Guess what happened when there was fisherman who threw a big fish back
into the water and keep only that small one? It is unusual incident, isn’t?
One morning, a man was crossing a narrow bridge. When he saw a
fisherman under him on the shady bank of the deep smooth river, he
stopped to watch him quietly.
He saw that the fisherman took off the hook and caught a big fish. But he
threw it back to water. Then he put his hook and line in again. After a
minute he caught rather big fish. Again, he threw it back into the river.
Then the third time, he caught a small fish. He put it into his basket and
started to get ready to go. The man on the bridge was very surprised, so he
spoke to the fisherman. He asked why did he threw those beautiful big
fishes back into the water and just kept only the small one.
The fisherman looked up and answered, “I only have a small frying pan.”
Poor fisherman!
 Pemancing
Tebak apa yang terjadi ketika ada seorang pemancing yang mengembalikan
ikan besar ke air dan mengambil yang kecil saja? Kejadian aneh, bukan?
Suatu pagi, seorang laki-laki sedang melintasi jembatan kecil. Ketika dia
melihat seorang pemancing di bawahnya di tepi sungai yang teduh, dia
berhenti untuk mengawasi diam-diam.
Ia melihat pemancing tersebut mengambil kailnya dan menangkap ikan yang
besar. Tapi, ia mengembalikan ikan itu ke air lagi. Kemudian, ia memasang
kailnya dan memancing lagi. Setelah beberapa saat ia menangkap ikan yang
cukup besar. Lagi-lagi, ia membuang ikan itu ke sungai lagi. Yang ke tiga
kalinya, ia menangkap seekor ikan kecil. Ia meletakkan ikan itu di
keranjangnya dan bersiap-siap untuk pergi. Laki-laki yang di jembatan amat
terkejut, maka ia pun berbicara pada si pemancing. Ia menanyakan mengapa
si pemancing melempar lagi ikan-ikan besar nan cantik itu ke sungai, dan
hanya mengambil ikan yang kecil.
Si pemancing mendongak dan menjawab, “(Sebab) aku hanya punya satu
wajan kecil saja.”
Pemancing yang malang!