ANECDOTE
TEXT
Anecdote
is a piece of writing that tells past events the text like narrative text in
that you have to write story.
Text
organization
Abstract
: signals the retelling of an unusual incident
Orientation
: sets the scene
Crisis :
provides details of an unusual incident
Reaction
: reaction to crisis
Coda:
optional, reflection on or evaluation of the incident
Communicative purpose
To entertain
the reader
To amuse
Language features
Action verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Punctuations
Simple past
tense
Verbs of
thinking and feeling
Causal connective
Use of
exclamations, rhetorical question and
intensifiers (really, very, quite, etc)
Example:
Ted
Robinson has been worried all the week. (Abstract)
Last
Tuesday he received a letter from the local police (Orientation)
Ted
wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday
and now he is not worried anymore. (Crisis)
At the
station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found. Five
days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was pick up in a small village
four hundred miles away. It is now being sent to his home by train. (Reaction)
Ted was
most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too, because he never
expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago when Ted was a
boy of fifteen. (Coda)
Text
source: Materi Pelatihan Terintegrasi Buku 2 Departemen Pendidikan Nasional
2005
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