How to Write Functional text: Spoof

How to Write Functional text: Spoof

Objectives

Learning competency: express meaning and rhetorical stages of an essay using a variety of language accurately, fluently and acceptable in the context of everyday life in the form of spoof.

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In this topic, you will learn how to write spoof. Read and study the following text.

Do you think the story I told you above is amusing? Have you ever heard a funny story before? We often find many kinds of humor in our daily life, including those delivered through funny stories. A funny story that has a twist, unpredictable moment, in the end is called the spoof.

Definition and Generic Structure

Spoof is a functional text that has an unpredictable part at the end called twist. The twist of the spoof is the element that makes the story funny. The purpose of a spoof is to share a funny story and amuse the readers. Spoof has the following structure:

Language Features

When you tell a spoof, you tell your real past experience. In telling your past experience, you need to use simple past tense, so the action verbs in spoof are written in past form. For example: ate, ran, went, thought, and felt. Moreover, spoof focuses on certain people or animals that become the main characters of the story. The events of the story are arranged chronologically based on the stages you experienced it. Thus, using the adverb of time and place are one of the others features of spoof. To illustrate, a moment later, some days ago, last weekend, back, down, and so on.

Sometimes, we are confused to differentiate between anecdote and spoof since it is rather similar. They are both related to funny stories and used to entertain the readers. However, anecdote is different from spoof. A funny story that has a twist, unpredictable moment, in the end is called the spoof. On the other hand, anecdote does not have a twist. The generic structures of anecdote are abstract, orientation, crisis, reaction and coda.

Keypoints

• The generic structure of spoof: Orientation, Series of events, and Twist.
• The action verbs of the spoof are written in past form.