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It’s Time to Go to School! Short Example of Spoof Text

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!"
(Taken from: www.rd.com/)

Note on Spoof Text
A funny story is always interesting. It really amuses reader. This amusement is actually the main function of spoof text.
How spoof text tries to amuse the reader is actually including in the way it is structured. We all know that SPOOF text is built with generic structure of ORIENTATION, EVENTS ant TWIST. Two phases in the first are commonly found in the other text genres. Recount text, for example, has the structures of orientation and events too to hold the reader’s interest. However the end of the story is what makes spoof text differ from recount text.
From the above example, we see clearly that the end of the story is really amusing and that we call TWIST which is the heart of spoof text.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, its time to school, no bed any more

Sanditya said...

it's so funny ^_^

Teen Spirit for Indonesia said...

haha, it's funny, but the story is not too long

Admin said...

Right it quite funny, The funny thing ending in a story is commonly arranged in an unpredictable thing. This is what we call twist. An the twist is what makes a spoof differ from a narrative

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