Valentine's Movies
In this 2000 sprots themed rom-com, a popular campus king falls for a politically outspoken student named Imari at Truth University.
What is "Love & Basketball"?
This component represents the people the message is directed to, whose values, knowledge, and attitudes shape how the argument is presented.
What is audience?
Valentine’s Day is celebrated each year on this date.
What is February 14th?
What is listing?
This 1992 Whitney Houston hit from the movie, "The Bodyguard," was originally a country song.
What is "I Will Always Love You"?
This singer of hit songs such as "Jenny From the Block" and "Love Don't Cost a Thing" is also famous for romanitc comedies such as "The Wedding Planner," "Monster-in-Law," and "Maid in Manhattan."
Who is Jennifer Lopez?
This term refers to the specific purpose or goal the speaker or writer has in mind when communicating, such as to inform, persuade, or entertain.
What is the purpose?
This red flower is the most popular one given on Valentine’s Day.
Who is a rose?
Kaling's identification of "The Klutz" and "The Woman Obsessed with Her Career" are examples of these, oversimplified ideas about a particular group of people.
What are stereotypes?
This artist's hit "We Belong Together" was a major comeback for her in the mid-2000s.
Who is Mariah Carey?
In the movie "13 Going on 30," Jenna gets everyone to dance to this Michael Jackson song.
What is "Thriller"?
This element of the rhetorical situation describes the person or group delivering the message, and includes their background, perspective, and intentions.
Who is the speaker?
These heart-shaped candies often come with short phrases like “Be Mine” written on them.
What are conversation hearts?
Mindy Kaling, the author of "Types of WOmen in Romanitc Comedies Who Are Not Real," stared in this hit early 2000's TV show.
What is "The Office"?
In this 2024 duet by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, the singer promises they’d be happy “if the world was ending,” because they’d be together.
What is "Die With a Smile"?
This 2018 TV movie tells the story of a teenage girl whose sister mails her secret love letters to every boy she's ever had a crush on.
What is "To All the Boys I've Loved Before"?
A satirical article about unrealistic movie characters aimed at readers who enjoy romantic comedies illustrates this part of the triangle, revealing why the author wrote the piece.
What is audience?
This winged figure from Roman mythology is often shown shooting arrows to make people fall in love.
Who is Cupid?
Kaling's repeated exaggeration of women's unrealistic traits in rom-coms helps the reader recognize this tone in her writing.
What is humor?
This duet between Brandy and Monica in 1998 became a defining love song, with its powerful vocals and intense themes of jealousy and heartbreak.
What is "The Boy Is Mine"?
In the movie, "Hitch," this Oscar winning actor plays a characater who tries to help people improve their romantic game.
Who is Will Smith?
This part of the rhetorical triangle deals with the urgent situation that caused an author to write a particular text.
What is exigence?
This is what the abreviation "XOXO" stands for.
What are hugs and kisses?
Mindy Kaling describes romantic comedies as a subgenre of this type of movie to make the point that unrealistic things happen in both.
What is Science Fiction?
John Legend sings about loving someone’s “curves and all your edges” in this wedding favorite.
What is "All of Me"?