2. —DEFINITION
Spoof Text is a text that tells a true story that
happened at the end with an unpredictable and
funny ending. The difference with recount text is
that recount aims to entertain the reader while
spoof text aims to tell a series of events ending
with a twist (funny and unexpected things)
DEFINI
TION
3. Social Function Of Spoof Text
● To Entertain/amuse the reader with a funny story
● tell a short story or event with a humorous twist
4. GENERIC STRUCTURE
introduction of the
participant of the story,
where it happen and when.
By giving the orientation,
reader will recognize the
story
an unpredictable plot in the
end of the story which
amuses the reader. Readers
even did not predict before
that it would be
tells about the chronological
of the story. Several events
are explored in chronological
way which able to arrange
the story read nicely.
Events
Orientation Twist
5. TYPE OF
SPOOF TEXT
Humorous Twist Ending
Many stories have twist with a happy and amusing
ending. It is a heartwarming ending. This twist is
funny and makes reader amused. Humorous twist
ending sometime is called Lighthearted twist
6. TYPE OF
SPOOF TEXT
Ironic Twist Ending
Stories with a twist or surprise at the end do not
necessarily have to have a happy ending. Many
have been written that have an ironic twist. This
ironic twist ending often reveal something about the
darker side of human nature. In other word ironic
twist is tragic
7. TYPE OF
SPOOF TEXT
Misconception twist Ending
A narrator who has incorrect information built around
their own perception of events that they pass along
can build an unpredictable ending. The ghost who
doesn’t know he or she has died, the robot who feels
human emotions, the narrator who does not know
they are a mannequin in a store are some ways to
create a twist based on faulty or withheld information
9. Humorous Twist
Ending!
Time to go to School
Early one morning, a mother went in to wake up her son. “Wake up, son. It’s
time to go to school!”
“But why, Mom? I don’t want to go.”
“Give me two reasons why you don’t want to go.”
“Well, the kids hate me for one, and the teachers hate me, too!”
“Oh, that’s no reason not to go to school. Come on now and get ready.”
“Give me two reasons why I should go to school.”
“Well, for one, you’re 52 years old. And for another, you’re the Principal!”
Source: Taken from: www.rd.com
10. Ironic twist Ending
Horseman In The Sky
Carter Druse was born in Virginia. He was a southerner. When the United States was divided by a terrible
civil war, Carter decided to join the Union Army of the north.
He told his father about his decision to join the north army. His father looked deep into his son’s eyes.
“Carter, No matter what happens, be sure you always do what you think is your duty.”
One sunny afternoon, Carter was sent to guard. It was his duty to be sure that no enemy soldier spied on.
Suddenly, he saw a man on horseback standing on the huge rocky cliff. He held a gun in his right hand,
and the horse’s reins in the other. Unavoidably, Carter pointed his gun. Carter was calm as he pulled the
trigger.
Soon after firing his gun, Carter was joined by a Union sergeant. “Did you fire?” The sergeant whispered.
“Yes.”
“At what?” The sergeant continued.
“A horse”
“Was there anyone on the horse?” The sergeant asked again.
“Yes.”
“Who? ” The sergeant kept asking.
“My father.”
Note: This example of ironic spoof text is summarized from Ambrose Bierce’s A Horseman in the Sky
11. Misconception
Twist Ending
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.”
Source: Re-written from www.onlyfunnystories.com
