Analysis of Viola Davis's Award Acceptance Speeches

1. Watch the Viola Davis Acceptance Speech video and read at least one newspaper report from the day after the speech. Cite the newspaper report and any relevant scholarly sources that help you with the evaluation.

2. Analyze the language style of the speech, and explain why it added to the persuasiveness of the argument. Be careful not to confuse delivery with word choice; the language style, of course, is not unrelated to the manner of delivery, but focus more on language than performance.