Secara umum spoof digambarkan sebagai teks

narasi yang bersumber dari kejadian faktual

dimasa lampau dengan tujuan menghibur
pendengar atau pembaca. Beberapa hal yang selalu
muncul dalam spoof adalah hal-hal unik tentang
anomali kebahasaan, seperti : joke dan idiom, atau
mungkin gabungan kedua unsur tersebut.
Menurut Riemer (2004 : 8) :

“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 Text
 “That Phone is Off”
- Orientation
Orientatition adalah bagian awal dari paragraph
yang berjenis spoof text, dimana paragrap ini
diperuntukan sebagai jawaban terhadap aspek
5W1H yang terkandung di dalam teks. Akan
dijelaskan pula detail kejadian dan latar
belakang si pelaku.
- Events
Event biasanya berisi tentang kejadian dimana
sebuah peristiwa berasal. Karena tetunya
sebelum menuju peristiwa inti, pembaca harus
mendapat orientasi yang tepat serta penjelasan
terperinci mengenai kejadian yang ada di dalam
teks.
- Twist
Ini adalah bagian paling menarik dalam spoof
teks, karena twist merupakan paragraf klimaks
yang berisi beberapa kalimat tak terduga.
Biasanya berupa anomali kebahasaan yang
sedang populer di masyarakat, sebagai un-
predictable ending Detail kecil yang justru
membedakan spoof dari teks-teks lainnya.
Soon after he left college, Dave found one of his
uncles who was very rich and had no children of
his own died and left him a lot of money, so he
decided to set up his own real estate agency.
Dave found a nice office. He bought some new
furniture and moved in. he had only been there
for e few hours when he heard someone coming
toward the door of his office. “It must be my first
customer” Dave thought. He quickly picked up
the telephone and pretended to be very busy
answering an important call from someone in
New York who wanted to buy a big and
expensive house in the country. The man
knocked at the door while this was going on. He
came in and waited politely for Dave to finish
his conversation on the phone.
Then the man said to Dave; “I am from the
telephone company and I was sent here to
connect your telephone”