ANECDOTE TEXT

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By :

Cicha Agustin Pratiwi

Putri Suryani
Niky Amanda

Tarbiyah Faculty and Teaching Training

Institut Agama Islam Negeri Padang Sidimpuan
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ForeWord

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh

Thanks to the grace of Allah SWT, Alhamdulillah, we are able to complete this English paper
as much as possible.
We would like to thank you very much for the guidance of lecturer to give us the title
“Anecdote Text” for our group task so we can explain it to all of our class.
Hopefully this paper can be a Science & Knowledge to readers.
That is our foreword if there is a word or writing error in our paper, we apologize profusely.
Understanding Anecdote Text

The word "Anecdote" comes from Greek (Greek), namely 'Anecdota' which means
'unpublished' or in Indonesian means 'not announced' or 'not published'. In English itself, the
word 'Anecdote' is used as a term for a secret story or personal story.

Anecdote text is a text which deals with something unexpected or out of ordinary that usually
contains some amusing or unusual incidents.
The meaning of anecdote text is a text that is related to something unexpected or unusual
which contains some entertaining or even unusual events.

Purpose / Purpose Anecdote Text

The purpose or purpose anecdote text is to tell the past events in order to amuse the readers or
listeners by telling the unusual and / or amusing incidents.
The purpose of anecdote text is to tell events that occurred in the past to entertain readers or
listeners by telling some unusual and / or entertaining events.
Language Feature of Anecdote Text / Characteristics of Linguistics

To recognize a text, it is said to be anecdote text, which is if it has the following

characteristics:
 Using the past tense (Past tense)
Example: Last night, I met a beautiful girl wearing swimsuit in the middle of crowded
people.
 Using Exclamation (Fun Words)
Example:How weird that man is! (really very strange man)
 Using the Conjunction of Time
Example: lately, firstly, after, before, finally, etc.

 Using a Rhetoric Question Rhetoric Question is a type of question that does not
require an answer because the asker knows better the answer to the question. Usually,
Rhetoric Question is used for interaction with readers or listeners.
Example: Do you know what? (you know what?), do you know why? (do you know why?)

 Using Intensity Word Intensity Word, which is a word used to show intensity to make
the story more dramatized.
Example:really good, very, very much, pretty much, and so on.
  Using imperative sentece (command sentence), such as: listen to this.
 Using action verbs (action verbs), such as: went, writed, etc.

Generic Structure of Anecdote Text

The generic structure anecdote text is as follows:

Abstract
In this section, the author will start the writing by introducing something unique or odd in a
brief manner so that it attracts the attention of the listener or reader and makes him curious
about how it happened. Usually, although not absolutely the author will start by asking a
question.

Orientation
After being able to make the listener or reader curious, then the writer will start by
introducing the place, actor, and time setting of a story. This section has the same function as
the Narration Text.

Crisis
The third part of the generic structure of anecdote text is Crisis. After in the abstrack section
the writer tells the unique thing briefly, it is in this section that the writer emphasizes the
uniqueness and oddity that occurs so that the curiosity (curious) graph of the readers has
increased.

Reaction or Incident
It is in this section that the author ends his curiosity about the odd or unique thing in the story
by telling how the perpetrator solves the problem or the oddity that occurs. And it is in this
section that usually the reader or listener gets an intriguing or funny solution to the problem.

Coda (optional / not required)

Coda is a conclusion that can be drawn in a funny story that will usually invite the listener or
reader to laugh even more. However, this part of the generic structure anecdote text is not
always in the anecdote story.
 Anecdote Text Example
After we understand the meaning, purpose, generic structure and language structure of
anecdote text, here is a brief example of anecdote text.

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 paralyzed. 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

.Ever since then I've always put the plug in firmly before running the bath water
Conclusion

An anecdote is a brief, revealing account of an individual person or an incident: "a story with

a point," such as to communicate an abstract idea about a person, place, or thing through the
concrete details of a short narrative or to characterize by delineating a specific quirk or trait. 
Occasionally humorous, anecdotes differ from jokesbecause their primary purpose is not
simply to provoke laughter but to reveal a truth more general than the brief tale itself.
Anecdotes may be real or fictional; the anecdotal digression is a common feature of literary
work and oral anecdotes typically involve subtle exaggeration and dramatic shape designed
to entertain the listener. A n anecdote is always presented as the recounting of a real incident
involving actual persons and usually in an identifiable place. In the words of Jürgen Hein,
they exhibit "a special realism" and "a claimed historical dimension."
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