What is Anecdote Text?

Definition:

          1.      Anecdote text is a text which retells funny and unusual incidents in fact or imagination.

          2.      A type of spoken or written text that deals with past incidents.

 Purpose:

          1.      To share with others an account of unusual, uncommon or amusing incident

          2.      To entertain the readers

Generic Structure:

          1.      Abstract: Signals the retelling of unusual, uncommon or amusing incident

          2.      Orientation: Introduction or sets the scene

          3.      Crisis: Provides details of unusual, uncommon or amusing incident

          4.      Incident: Reaction to the crisis

          5.      COA (Optional): A reflection or an evaluation of unusual, uncommon or amusing incident

Language Features:

          1.      Using exclamation word: It’s awful!, what a bad day!, a very strange incident!

          2.      Using imperative: Listen, let’s read this story

          3.      Using rhetoric question: do you what?, what do you like to do when you make wrong thing

          4.      Using action verb: go, write, stand, speak, so on

          5.      Using conjunction of time: then, afterwards, before, after, ever since, while, so on

          6.      Using simple past tense

Example

Everybody has a dream. You have and so do I. when the dream will come true, there is something wrong last minute before it. What will we feel? What will we do? There was a black family in Scotland years ago. They were John family with nine children. They had a dream to go to America. The family worked and saved. They were making plan to travel with their children to America. It had taken several years but finally they had saved enough money. They had gotten passport. They had booked seats for the whole family member in a new liner to America. The entire family was full of anticipation and excitement with their new life in America. However few days before their departure, the youngest son was bitten by a dog. The doctor sewed up the boy. Because of the possibility of getting rabies, they were being quarantined for long days. They were in quarantine when the departure time came. The family dreams were dashed. They could not make the trip to America as they had planned. The father was full of disappointed and anger. He stomped the dock to watch the ship leaved without him and his family. He shed tears of disappointment. He cursed both his son and God for the misfortune. Five days later, the tragic news spread throughout Scotland. The ship, the mighty Titanic, had shank. It took hundreds of passenger and crew with it. Titanic which had been called the unsinkable ship had sunk. It was unbelievable but it was. The John family should have been ship, but because of the bitten son by a dog, they were left behind. When the father heard the news, he hugged the son and thanked him for saving the family. He thanked God for saving their lives. It was a blessing behind a tragedy.