Spoof Text Definition and Social Function of Spoof

GOAT JUMPING INTO DEEP HOLE
Two men were walking through the woods and come across a very big deep hole. "Wow...that looks
deep." One replied,"Sure does... toss a few pebbles in there and we will see how deep this hole is." Then
they pick up a few pebbles and throw them in and wait... no noise "Geeez. That is really deep... here..
throw one of these great big rocks down there. Those should make a noise." After that, they pick up a
couple football-sized rocks and toss them into the hole and wait... and wait. but no noise they heard.
Wow.. They were really impressed with how deep hole it was. They look at each other in amazement.
One gets a determined look on his face and says, "Hey...over here in the weeds, there's a railroad tie.
Help me carry it over here. When we toss that sucker in this hole, it's must make some noise."
The two men drag the heavy tie over to the hole and heave it in. But, not a sound comes from the hole.
Suddenly, out of the nearby woods, a goat appears, running like the wind. It rushes toward the two
men, then right past them, running as fast as its legs will carry it. Suddenly it leaps in the air and into the
hole. The goat disappeared into the deep hole.
The two men are astonished with what they've just seen. How could a goat jump into the hole? Then,
not long after that, out of the woods comes a farmer. He seemed to seek something and asked to the
two men, "Hey two guys... have you seen my goat out here?"
Feeling amazing with what they saw of a goat jumping to the hole, they answer straightly,"You bet we
did! Craziest thing I've ever seen! A goat came running like crazy and just jumped into this hole!"
The farmer thought a moment and said, "That could not have been my goat. Because my goat was
chained to a railroad tie(bantalan)." Then he left the two men.
Spoof Text
Definition and Social Function of Spoof

Spoof is a text which tells factual story, happened in the past time with unpredictable and funny ending.
Its social function is to entertain and share the story.
Generic Structure of Spoof

1. Orientation
2. Events
3. Twist
Language Feature of Spoof

1. Focusing on people, animals or certain things
2. Using action verb; ate, ran, etc
3. Using adverb of time and place
4. Told in chronological order
ANECDOTE
Purpose: to share with others an account of an unusual or amusing incident
Generic Structure:
1. Abstract
2. Orientation
3. Crisis
4. Reaction
5. Coda.
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using exclamations, rhetorical question or intensifiers
2. Using material process
3. Using temporal conjunctions
SPOOF
Purpose: to tell an event with a humorous twist and entertain the readers
Generic Structure:
1. Orientation
2. Event(s)
3. Twist
Dominant Language Features:
1. Using Past Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Using adverb
4. Chronologically arranged
ANOTHER EX:
“Loving money too much”
There 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 was a real miser when it came to his money. 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 that when he died, she would put all the money in the casket with him.
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."
Notice on Generic structure of spoof sample

Spoof text is very similar to recount text. Both spoof and recount tell about the past event with
chronological order. Its purpose is to amuse reader with funny story. The story mostly is ended with an
unpredictable event.
The above spoof sample has generic structure as follow:
Orientation: It is the introduction of the story. By giving the orientation, reader will recognize, for the
first time, who involves in the story.The above story talks about a wife and his husband who loves
money too much even up to his death.
Events: Several events are explored in chronological way which able to arrange the story read
nicely.Promising with her money miser husband, Putting the box inside casket, locking and rolling the
casket are the events which build the complete story.
Twist: This is the unpredictable event/thing/way which amuse the reader. Readers even did not predict
before that it would be. When reading the above story, for the first, readers likely think that the wife
would put all the money instead of just a check

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Definition and Social Function of Spoof

Generic Structure of Spoof

Language Feature of Spoof

“Loving money too much”

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