Pengertian dan Contoh Spoof Text

Pengertian Spoof Text

Spoof text adalah salahsatu jenis text dalam bahasa inggris. Spoof text bersifat menghibur (to amous and entertain the reader dan dibuat untuk menghibur si pembaca. Pada dasarnya spoof text hampir sama dengan narrative text, namun, pada spoof text terdpat cerita lucu pada bagian akhir text nya, yang disebut TWIST.

Spoof text juga memiliki struktur yang berbeda dengan narative text, generic structure nya, yaitu terdiri dari :

· Orientation

· Event

· Twist

Contoh Spoof Text

Untuk lebih jelasnya, lihat contoh spoof text berikut,

orientation One day a clown was visiting the zoo and attempted to earn some money by making a street performance. He acted and mimed perfectly some animal acts. As soon as he started to drive a crowd, a zoo keeper grabbed him and dragged him into his office. The zoo keeper explained to the clown that the zoo's most popular gorilla had died suddenly and the keeper was fear that attendance at the zoo would fall off. So he offered the clown a job to dress up as the gorilla until the zoo could get another one. The clown accepted this great opportunity.

Event So the next morning the clown put on the gorilla suit and entered the cage before the crowd came. He felt that it was a great job. He could sleep all he wanted, played and made fun of people and he drove bigger crowds than he ever did as a clown. He pretended the gorilla successfully.

However, eventually the crowds were tired of him for just swinging on tires. He began to notice that the people were paying more attention to the lion in the next cage. Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he decided to make a spectacular performance. He climbed to the top of his cage, crawled across a partition, and dangled from the top to the lion's cage. Of course, this made the lion furious, but the crowd people loved it.

Twist At the end of the day the zoo keeper came and gave him a raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this went on for some time, he kept taunting the lion, the audience crowd grew a larger, and his salary kept going up. Then one terrible day happened. When he was dangling over the furious lion, he slipped and fell into the lion cage. The clown was really in big terrible situation. He was terrified.