Spoof text merupakan sebuah text dalam bahasa inggris yang
berfungsi untuk menjelaskan peristiwa atau kejadian lucu pada masa lampau.
Generic Structure Spoof Text
- Orientation : yaitu berisi pengenalan
terhadap cerita tersebut
- Event : yaitu penjabaran akan cerita
yang akan diceritakan
- Twist : yaitu ending atau akhir dari
cerita tersebut.
Contoh:
THE PHONE WAS OFF
Soon after he left college, Dave found one of
his uncles who was very rich and had no children of his own died and left him a
lot of money, so he decided to set up his own real estate agency.
Dave found a nice office. He bought some new
furniture and moved in. he had only been there for e few hours when he heard
someone coming toward the door of his office.
“It must be my first customer” Dave thought. He
quickly picked up the telephone and pretended to be very busy answering an
important call from someone in New York who wanted to buy a big and expensive
house in the country.
The man knocked at the door while this was
going on. He came in and waited politely for Dave to finish his conversation on
the phone. Then the man said to Dave; “I am from the telephone company and I
was sent here to connect your telephone”