Text Anecdote (Cerita Lucu)

Ciri Umum:

a. Tujuan Komunikatif Teks:
Menceritakan kejadian/peristiwa lucu berdasarkan khayalan atau peristiwa nyata yang bertujuan menghibur.

b. Struktur Teks:
· Pengenalan;
· Krisis;
· Tindakan;
· Koda.

c. Ciri Kebahasaan menggunakan:
· seruan/kata seru, pertanyaan retorik dan kata-kata seperti Listen to this! And do you know what? It’s awful, isn’t it? dsb.
· action verbs, misalnya go, write, dsb.
· conjunctions yang berhubungan dengan waktu, seperti then, afterwards, dsb.

· Contoh dan Struktur Teks Anecdote:

Snake in the Bath

How would you like to find a snake in your bath?
A nasty one too!
We had just moved into a new house, which had been empty for so long that everything was in a terrible mess. Anna and I decided we would clean the bath first, so we set to, and turned on the tap.
Suddenly to my horror, a snake’s head appeared in the plug-hole. Then out slithered the rest of his long thin body. He twisted and turned on the slippery bottom of the bath, spitting and hissing at us.
For an instant I stood there quite paralysed. Then I yelled for my husband, who luckily came running and killed the snake with the handle of a broom. Anna, who was only three at the time, was quite interested in the whole business. Indeed I had to pull her out of the way or she’d probably have leant over the bath to get a better look!

Koda:
"Ever since then I’ve always put the plug in firmly before running the bath water".