Penjelasan dan Contoh Anecdote Text dalam Bahasa Inggris

Penjelasan, Contoh, dan Soal Latihan Anecdote Text dalam Bahasa Inggris

jagoanbahasainggris.com - Anecdote Text merupakan salah satu jenis teks bahasa Inggris
dari golongan Narration, yaitu suatu teks yang berisi cerita-cerita. Anecdote Text merupakan suatu teks yang menceritakan kembali kejadian ganjil atau tidak biasa, baik berupa fakta maupun imajinasi.

Tujuan Komunikatif Anecdote Text

Anecdote Text bertujuan menceritakan kembali kejadian ganjil atau tidak biasa yang ditujukan untuk menghibur pembaca

Generic Structure Anecdote Text

Abstract
Pada bagian Abstract, biasanya penulis mulai mengenalkan kejadian ganjil atau tidak biasa. Beberapa Abstract dari Anecdote Text diawali dengan kalimat tanya. Akan tetapi, tidak semua Abstract dari Anecdote Text menggunakan kalimat tanya.
Orientation
Struktur kebahasaan yang kedua dari Anecdote Text adalah Orientation. Sebagaimana pada Narrative Text, Orientation di Anecdote Text juga menceritakan siapa, kapan, dan dimana kejadian ganjil atau tidak biasa tersebut mulai terjadi.
Crisis
Struktur kebahasaan Anecdote Text berikutnya adalah Crisis. Pada bagian ini, penulis menceritakan kejadian-kejadian tidak biasa (ganjil) secara lebih rinci (detail).
Coda
Pada bagian Coda, penulis menceritakan cara subjek cerita (pelaku) memecahkan masalah sekaligus mengakhiri kejadian ganjil (tidak biasa) tersebut.

Ciri Kebahasaan Anecdote Text

Berikut adalah beberapa ciri kebahasaan yang biasa ditemukan di setiap Anecdote Text.

Menggunakan Past Tense (waktu lampau), contohnya I found it last night
Menggunakan Rhetoric Question (pertanyaan retorika), seperti Do you know what?
Menggunakan Conjunction of Time (kata sambung waktu), seperti then, afterward, dan sebagainya.
Menggunakan Action Verb (kata kerja aksi), misalnya went.
Menggunakan Imperative Sentence (kalimat perintah), seperti listen to this.
Menggunakan Exclamation Sentence (kalimat seru), seperti it's awful, It's wonderful, dan sebagainya.

Contoh Anecdote Text

Snake in The Bath

Abstract
How would you like to find a snake in your bath? A nasty one too!

Orientation
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.

Crisis
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 hising at us.

Reaction/Incident
For an instant stood there quite paralyzed. Then I yelled for my husband, who luckily came running and killed the snake with 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!

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

Contoh Latihan Soal Anecdote Text

Contoh Soal 1

Welcome to America

It's the first time for young Jose to travel to the United States from Mexico. He made his first trio to Yankee Stadium, but there were no tickets left for sale.

Taking pity on the poor guy, a friendly ticket salesman found him an empty seat near the American flag. Later. Jose wrote home enthusiastically about his experience. "The Americans are so friendly!", He concluded

Before the game started, they all stood up and looked at me and sang, "Jose, can you see?" (The first
line of the US anthem, "Oh, say, can you see?")

Soal

1. Who does make a travel from Mexico to United States?
(A) Salesman
(B) Americans
(C) Jose
(D) A guy
(E) A little boy

Jawaban C
Pilihan (C) adalah jawaban yang benar karena yang melakukan perjalanan dari Meksiko ke Amerika
Serikat adalah Jose (lihat kalimat 1 paragraf 1)

2. "Taking pity on the poorguy, a friendly ticket salesman found him" (paragraph 2).
What does the word printed in bold mean?
(A) A feeling of happiness
(B) A feeling of pride
(C) A feeling of unhappiness
(D) A feeling of sympathy and understanding for someone else's unhappiness or difficult situation.
(E) A feeling of dislike

Jawaban: (D)
Pilihan (D) adalah jawaban yang benar karena arti kata "pity" adalah kasihan atau perasaan simpatik dan memahami ketidakbahagiaan orang lain atau dalam keadaan yang sulit.

3. How does the writer make the scene funny?
(A) By providing clue at the beginning.
(B) By arranging events in the order they happened.
(C) By giving a personal comment in the end of the story.
(D) By giving a twist at the end of story.
(E) By giving a funny thing in the middle of story.

Jawaban: (C)
Pilihan (C) benar karena penulis membuat kelucuan dengan memberikan komentar pribadi Jose di akhir cerita. (....they all stood up and looked at me and sang, "Jose, can you see?")

4. The communicative purpose of this text is....
(A) to inform readers about the Jose's problem
(B) to describe the Jose's experience
(C) to explain the reader's about the job of lose
(D) to share amusing story with others
(E) to persuade readers to be concerned with the soldier's case

Jawaban: (D)
Pilihan (D) benar karena tujuan anekdot adalah menghibur, tetapi terdapat pesan tertentu dari penulisnya.

Contoh Soal 2

Snake in the Bath

How would you like to in 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 should 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 thinbody. He twist and turned on the slippery bottom of thebath, spitting and hissing at us.

For an instant stood there quite paralyzed. Then I yelled for my husband, who luckily came running and killed the snake with 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!

We found out later that it was a black mamba, poisonous kind of snake. It had obviously been asleep, curled up as the bottom of the nice warm water- pipe. It must have had an awful shock when the cold water came tricking down! But nothing to the shock/ got!

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

Soal

1.What type of text is used by the writer?
(A) narrative
(B) report
(C) anecdote
(D) analytical exposition
(E) news items

2.The communicative purpose of this text is....
(A) To inform readers about important and newsworthy events.
(B) To present critique an work.
(C) To persuade readers to accept his/her opinions.
(D) To acknowledge readers about informative events.
(E) To share with others an account of an usual incident.

3. The organization of text above is....
(A) abstract, orientation, crisis, incident, coda
(B) thesis, argument: point-elaboration, argument: point-elaboration, argument: point-elaboration, conclusion
(C) general statement, explanation, explanation, explanation
(D) description, background events, sources
(E) orientation, event, event, event

4. To point up the significance of the events, the writer uses....
(A) a rhetorical question and an exclamation
(B) time sequences
(C) contrastive evidence
(D) projecting verbs
(E) concessive conjunction

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