Understanding Functional Text: Spoof

Understanding Functional Text: Spoof

Objectives

Understanding the meaning of short functional text and monologue form of spoof in the context of daily life

Learn about it!

You have already learned about some kinds of text such as narrative text and recount text. In this lesson, you will learn about how to understand a short functional text of spoof text form.

SPOOF TEXT

Spoof text is a text that tells about a short story which cannot be predicted in the end, but it has funny ending. Spoof text commonly contains funny wordplay which has sense of humor. People use this kind of text to make a joke. So, if you want to make a spoof text, you need to have a humorous style.

Social Function of Spoof Text

Spoof text aims to entertain or humor the readers with a twisting or unpredictable ending. It focuses on humor story than taking a lesson. It is made for entertaining and the funny thing will be found at the end of the story.

Generic Structure of Spoof Text:

Even though the story is short, but it has some generic structures which should be noticed as follows:

1. Orientation
   As in narrative and recount text, spoof text has also orientation which introduces the characters of the story, a place where it happens, and when it happens.
2. Events
   This part tells about the sequences or chronological events of the story. Several events are arranged in chronological way in order that the reader can read it well.
3. Twist
   This is the last part. It is an unpredictable plot which is put in the end of the story to amuse the reader. The readers cannot predict the plot, so the writer put the twist in the end of the story. The story cannot be called as a poof text if there is not a twist. Thus, it can be concluded that twist is the most important thing in making a spoof story.

Language Feature of Spoof Text

In writing a spoof text, you should also pay attention to its language feature.

1. Focusing on participant like as animals, people, or certain things
2. Using action verb (came, decided, got, etc.)
3. Using past tense to tell the past events.
4. Using of adverbial phrases of time and place such as one day, in the hospital, in the store, etc.
5. Telling about the sequences of events in the correct order.
6. Using of direct speech or indirect speech for the conversations.

Do you understand?

Example of Spoof Text:

After reading the story above, some of you may think hard to understand the twist. You need a sense of humor to understand the story to catch the humor in the twist.

Keypoints

To sum up the lesson above, spoof text is:
• A story which has unpredictable and funny ending.
• Aims to amuse the readers through the story.
• Has three parts in generic structures; orientation, events, and twist.
• Uses past tense because it tells about past event.
• Has the important thing in the story to make punch line which is called as twist. It is put in the end of the story.