Spoof TextMagistra Dwinovia Indriani

XI IPA 82013/2014

Table of Contents

What is a Spoof Text?

Social Function of Spoof Text?

Language Feature of Spoof text?

Generic Structure of Spoof Text?

Exercises

What is a Spoof Text?

Spoof text is a text which tells factual story, happened in the past time with unpredictable and funny ending.

Mentioned in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary Online, there are two meanings spoof. First, as a noun, meaning, "a funny and silly piece of writing, music, theater, etc. that copies the style of an original work". Being second, spoof as a verb, meaning, "to try to the make someone believe in something that is not true, as a joke.“Based on two meanings above, it can be concluded that the definition of spoof text is a text that contains humor, although most of the text has been modified from the original.

Social Function of Spoof Text?

Social function of spoof text is to tell an event which the ending is funny (twist) to amuse the audience or readers (has entertaining values).

  Language Feature of Spoof text?

0 Focusing on people, animals or certain thingsSpoof text is usually focused on humans, animals and other living things. But keep in mind, when we want to use the animals as actors in a spoof text, we are not allowed to make the story as if it happened in the animal world. It aims to minimize the ambiguity between spoof text and fable.

0 Using action verb0 Using past tense

0 Using adverb of time and placeUsing the adverbial of time and place is used to confirm the time and place where the information is going stories.Ex : yesterday, tommorow, above the depths, etc.

0 Told in chronological orderThe reader or listener must be introduced to the details of all events in chronological to avoid disorder description.

Generic Structure of Spoof Text?

1. OrientationIntroduction of the participant of the story, where it happen and when. By giving the orientation, reader will recognize the story.

2. EventsTells about the chronological of the story. Several reasonable events are explored in chronological way which able to arrange the story read nicely.

3. TwistAn unpredictable plot in the end of the story which amuse the reader. Readers even did not predict before that it would be.

Penguin in the ParkOrientationOnce a man was walking in a park when he come across a penguin.

EventHe 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 still carrying the penguin with him. The policeman was rather suprised and walked up to the man and asked, “Why are you still carrying that penguin about? Didn't you take it to the zoo?"

Twist"I certainly did," replied the man. "And it was a great idea because he really enjoyed it, so today I am taking him to the moviest, and the next day I'll take it to the beach. It'll be so much fun," said the man. "Oh my God. You are so stupid. I asked you to take the penguin and give it to the zoo. I didn't ask to take it to the zoo and had fun there with it." the policemen said.

I wanna be a PilotOne day, a cleaning service in an airplane was clean the floor of airplane. When he worked, he

imagined himself to be a pilot. Then, he decided to take a rest in a few minutes and thought about his dream to be a pilot. After that, he saw a stewardess back to the airplane to took her bag and brought some book. She looked very hurried until she was not conscious that one of the book was fell. After the stewardess leaved the airplane, the cleaning service took the book and read the book.

 “How to drive the airplane. Wow, amazing! With this book, my dreams will become true!” said the boy while read the title of the book. As soon as possible, he went to airplane cockpit. Then, he open the book. In the first page, he read “press the green button to fly the airplane”. Then, he was immediately pressed the green button and suddenly he was surprised that the plane flew slowly. He screamed loudly. Now, he has to be at a height of 20 feet. Then, he opens the second page. there is written "to keep the airplane is at a higher altitude, you have to press the yellow button" and he was pressing the yellow button, the plane was flying very high. After  the cleaning service feels that  height was enough, he didn’t  want to fly higher. Then, he opens the next page, there is written "to rebuild the airplane remain at a certain height, press the blue button" he was pressing the blue button. After that, he closed the book and put beside him and said “My dreams can become true right now, it is time I travelled the world with this plane.“

Three hours later, he was bored and wanted to get back to the airport to land the plane. Quickly, he took and opened the last page of the book to find ways to land the plane. He was shocked after reading the last page, there is written "to land the plane, you can learning in the handbook part II, that is easy to get at nearby stores. Thank you”.

Rich ManThere was a man who liked money very much. He worked all of his life and

wanted to save all of his money for his own future. He loved money more than just about anything.

Even, just before he died, he said to his wife, "Now listen, when I die, I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. I wanna take my money to the afterlife." So, he asked his wife to promise him with all her heart.

Well, one day, he really died. Then, he was stretched out in the casket. The wife was sitting there in black clothes next to her closest friend. When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said "Wait just a minute!“ She had a box in her hands. She came over with the box and placed it in the casket. After that the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away. Not long after that, her friend said, "I hope you were not crazy enough to put all that money in the casket.“ The wife turned to her friend and replied, "Yes, because I have promised." Then, she continued, "I can't lie. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him." Feeling shocked, her friend said, "You mean that you have put every cent of his money in the casket with him?" Then the wife answered, "Surely I did. I got it all together, put all the money into my account and I just wrote him a check."

Call me GiantOne day, Mia went to the internet café. She intends to open a Facebook because she did not have

long chats. Yet a minute when she began chatting, she suddenly got a message from a friend the man in conversation.“Hi… How are you?" said the message.Mia looks happy because he was using the English language."I'm fine. Who are you?" reply Mia."I'm Giant. " replied the man.

Mia getting excited because Giant name is usually used by the west. Mia thought that his friend was an outsider. He was happy because she had long wanted to meet at the same time have a boyfriend outside."I'm Mia. You must be fat?" Mia asked."Not. I'm mediocre, "said Giant."The proof's your name Giant, Giant's meaning fat.”"Not. Giant was just my nickname, my friends usually call me like that.”"Me, too. Mia is my nickname.""So, what’s your complete name?" ask Giant."Sumiati. And you?”"Sugianto.“

A second later, they simultaneously directly log out from chat.

Remember!

Interestingly, spoof text has focused in the aesthetics of interaction, lighter and more entertaining. Entertaining values in the spoof text summarized in unexpected paragraph, usually located at the end of the text, in the form of anomalous language which is never heard a listener or maybe just a simple joke on tickling matters around the reader.

The thing to note that a spoof is successful, when the storyteller can make the audience laugh. Therefore, spoof is not intended to a group with different language orientations.

ExercisesFluffy Bunny Rabbit 

After a long day at the office, Chris came home one day and found his dog with the neighbour’s pet rabbit in his mouth. The rabbit was obviously dead. Chris panicked!

“If my neighbours find out my dog killed their bunny, they’ll hate me forever,” he thought.  So he took the dirty, chewed up rabbit into the house, gave it a bath and blow-dried its fur. Chris knew his neighbours kept their backdoor open during the summer, so he sneaked inside and put the bunny back into the cage, hoping his neighbours would think it died of natural causes.

A couple of days later Chris and his neighbour saw each other outside. “Did you hear that Fluffy die?” the neighbour asked. “Oh. Uhmm... Sorry to hear that. What happened?” Chris mumbled. 

The neighbor replied, “We just found him dead in his cage one day. But the strange thing is that the day after we buried him, we went out to dinner and someone must have dug him up, gave him a bath and put him back into the cage!” 

What does the story tell us? a. A rabbit and a dog b. A boy who petted a rabbit c. Neighbourhood in America d. A boy who tried to maintain

neighbourhoode. A boy who was angry with his

neighbours because their dog killed his rabbit. 

What was his dog doing when Chris found it? f. The dog was barking at a thiefg. The dog was digging the

neighbour’s fieldh. The dog was eating the rabbiti. The dog was killing the rabbitj. The dog was carrying a dead rabbit

in its mouth

What did Chris think of his neighbour’s rabbit?a. It was aliveb. It was killed by his dogc. It was funnyd. It was stinky because it was already

deade. He was upset because his neighbor

did not bury it

How did Chris cover up the death of the rabbit? f. By cleaning it and then putting it in

his neighbour’s houseg. By burrying it in the backyardh. By throwing it into his neighbour’s

rubbish bini. By bathing it and then burying itj. By replacing it with his own rabbit

How did Chris get into his neighbour’s house? a. Breaking the side window of the

houseb. Breaking the front door of the

housec. Sneaking through the backdoord. Using the key hidden below the

doormate. Passing the front gate of the house

What actually happened to the rabbit? f. The dog ate the rabbitg. The dog found it diedh. Chris unconsciously killed iti. Chris’s neighbour killed it and

buried it before the dog found itj. It died and buried in the backyard

before the dog dug it out

“If my neighbours find out my dog killed their bunny, they’ll hate me forever” (part 2). The sentence implies …. a. Chris wanted his neighbour to know

that his dog killed the rabbitb. Chris worried if his neighbour was

angry with himc. Chris hated his neighbour so that he

killed the rabbitd. Chris let his dog eat the rabbite. Chris was happy because his dog

could kill the rabbit

The word ‘him’ in line 13 refers to …. f. The dogg. Chrish. The rabbit i. Chris’s neighbourj. Chris’s rabbit 

References

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