Spoof Text

      Teks twist / spoof pada dasarnya sama dengan teks narrative yakni merupakan jenis teks berupa cerita atau dongeng dengan bertujuan menghibur pembaca, hanya saja di tambah unsur lucu atau hal yang di luar dugaan. Ini berarti teks spoof merupakan bentuk narrative plus – yaitu plus unsur lucu

     Teks Spoof umumnya memiliki struktur, atau generik structure :

1. Orientation, pendahuluan atau pembuka berupa pengenalan tokoh, waktu, dan tempat

2. Events, rangkaian kejadian atau peristiwa

3. Twist, akhir yang lucu atau tidak terduga

     Teks spoof sering menggunakan unsur kebahasaan tertentu, antara lain :

- Noun tertentu sebagai kata ganti orang, hewan, dan benda dalam cerita, misalnya a pinguin, a farmer dsb

- Individual Participant, terfokus pada kisahan partisipan (pelaku tertentu yang spesifik

- Past tense, menggunakan kata kerja bentuk lampau, misalnya went, ran, ate, dsb

- time connective dan conjuction untuk mengurutkan kejadian, misalnya after, before, soon, then, after that, dsb

- action verbs, kata kerja yang menunjukan peristiwa atau kegiatan, misalnya stayed, climbed, killed, dll

- saying verbs dan thinking verbs, kata kerja yang menunjukan pelaporan atau ujaran, misalnya said, told, promised, thought, understood, dsb

Example of spoof text

     Sometimes ago the ruin of an unfortunate Adam Air was found. The only passenger found ‘still alive’ was a monkey.

     Surprisingly, the monkey could speak using ‘Tarzan’s language’ to the investigators, when it was interroogated about what really happened just before the accident

     When the investigators asked “what were the pilot and stewardess doing at that time?”, the monkey touched the fingers of the left hand to the fingers on the right signaling that they were dating and ‘kissing’. The investigators continued asking “what were the passenger doing?”. The monkey held both its hand palms under its cheek, signaling that they were sleeping.

     The investigators wondered “and what were you doing at that time?” The monkey raised both hands and showed its firsts as though it had been holding the steering wheel, signaling that the monkey itself drove the plane !!

Penguin in the Park

     Once a man was walking in a park when he came across a penguin. He took him to a policeman and said, ‘I have just found this penguin. What should I do? The policeman replied, ‘Take him to the zoo!’

     The next day the policeman saw the same man in the same park and the man was still carrying the penguin with him. The policeman was rather surprised and walked up to the man and asked, ‘Why are you still carrying that penguin about ? Didn’t you take it to the zoo? ‘I certainly did, ’replied the man, ‘ and it was a great idea because he really enjoyed it, so today I’m taking him to the movies!’