THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NARRATIVE TEXT AND SPOOF TEXT

 SPOOF TEXT

 Definition

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 Spoof Text

1. Orientation: introduction of the participant of the story, where it happen and when.
By giving the orientation, reader will recognize the story.
2. Events: tells about the chronological of the story. Several events are explored in
chronological way which able to arrange the story read nicely.
3. Twist: an unpredictable plot in the end of the story which amuses the reader.
Readers even did not predict before that it would be.
 The Characteristics / Language Feature of Spoof Text:
1. Focusing on individual participant
2. Use of circumstance of time and place
3. Use of past tense
4. Use of direct speech for the dialog
5. Using action verb; ate, ran, etc
6. Using adverb of time and place
7. Told in chronological order

Example.

FOR RENT

There was an advertisement at the newspaper : Apartment for rent, just for a family without
children.
A man visited to that apartment, think for a moment, then agree with the rules. But tomorrow, he
move to the apartment with his wife and seven kids!! The owner of apartment gets angry.

“Sir, yesterday I was telling you! This apartment was just for rent for a family without children!”

“What children?” answer the man. “You said this seven are children? No!! They’re monsters!”

Generic Structure Analysis
Orientation : There was an advertisement at the newspaper : Apartment for rent, just
for a family without children.

Event : A man visited to that apartment, think for a moment, then agree with the
rules. But tomorrow, he move to the apartment with his wife and seven
kids!! The owner of apartment gets angry.

“Sir, yesterday I was telling you! This apartment was just for rent for a
family without children!”

Twist : “What children?” answer the man. “You said this seven are children?
No!! They’re monsters!”

 NARRATIVE TEXT
 Definition and Social Function of Narrative Text

Narrative text is a piece of text which tells an imaginative story that happened in past time.
Its social function is to entertain or to amuse the readers or listeners about the story.

 Generic Structure of Narrative Text

1. Orientation:  It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are
introduced.
2. Complication: Where the problems in the story developed.
3. Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved
4. Reorientation: The ending of the story.
 5. Evaluation: The stepping back to evaluate the story or the moral message of the story
 The Characteristics / Language Feature of Narrative Text
1. Past tense( killed, drunk, etc )
2. Adverb of time (Once upun a time, one day, etc)
3. Time conjunction (when, then, suddenly, etc)
4. Specific character. The character of the story is specific, not general. (Cinderella,
Snow White, Alibaba, etc)
5. Action verbs. A verb that shows an action. (killed, dug, walked, etc)
6. Direct speech. It is to make the story lively. (Snow White said,”My name is Snow
White). The direct speech uses present tense.

Example.

The Story of Smart Monkey and Dull Crocodile

One day there was a monkey. He wanted to cross a river. There he saw a crocodile so he asked
the crocodile to take him across the other side of the river. The crocodile agree and told the
monkey to jump on its back. Then the crocodile swam down the river with the monkey on his
top.
Unluckily, the crocodile was very hungry, he stopped in the middle of the river and said to the
monkey, “My father is very sick. He has to eat the heart of the monkey. So he will be healthy
again.”
At the time, the monkey was in dangerous situation and he had to think hard. Then he had a good
idea. He told the crocodile to swim back to the river bank. “What’s for?” asked the crocodile.
“Because I don’t bring my heart,” said the monkey. “I left it under a tree, near some coconuts in
the river bank.”
The crocodile agreed and turned around. He swam back to the bank of the river. As soon as they
reached the river bank, the monkey jumped off the crocodile’s back. Then he climbed up to the
top of a tree.
“Where is your heart?” asked the crocodile. “You are foolish,” said the monkey to the crocodile.
“Now I am free and I have my heart.”

Generic Structure Analysis

Orientation:The participants or characters of the story are a smart monkey and dull
crocodile. The time set is just one day. The story takes place in a river

Complication: Every narrative text must consist of conflict or problem. A simple

definition of problem is when something goes and it is not what we want. In the story the
complication start when the crocodile want to eats the monkey. Of course the monkey
don not want to be the crocodile's meal and that is the problem which sets the whole
story.

Resolution: A problem must be resolved. It can succeed or fail. In this story, the monkey
succeeds to solve the problem. He get free from the hungry crocodile.
To have clear understanding, take a look at the following example of narrative text about
the way of a smart monkey getting free from from a hungry dull crocodile.