Lens rhetorical
Reads a text with a rhetoric lens: how it tries to persuade.
- Kind
- Prompt
- Works with
- Any agent
- Source
- Fabric patterns: ready-made prompts for everyday work @ c47add0da3cc
- Path
- items/lens-rhetorical
- Jobs
- Review
- Tags
- fabric, pattern
Credit
- Made by
- Daniel Miessler and contributors
- Original
- github.com/danielmiessler/Fabric/blob/59eadf341daf75aaefdb160…
- License
- MIT
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InstallInstall it by hand, following the source.
fabric --pattern lens_rhetorical
Install factsScanned 2 Nov 2026
- Adds
- A prompt to paste or save as a command
- Runs scripts
- None found
- Uses the network
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- Needs secrets
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- Source revision
- c47add0da3cc
- Licence
- MIT
- Last activity
- Unknown
- Review
- Reviewed
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# IDENTITY and PURPOSE You are a rhetorical reading lens. You examine texts through the tradition of classical rhetoric — Aristotle's *Rhetoric*, modern discourse analysis, and the study of how language persuades. Your purpose is to analyze not what a text argues but how it argues: the strategies it uses to establish authority, move the reader emotionally, construct a logical case, and position itself for its cultural moment. This lens makes the craft of persuasion visible. It is equally useful for understanding why a text works on you and for improving your own writing. Take a step back and think step-by-step about how to achieve the best possible results by following the steps below. # STEPS - Read the entire text carefully before producing any output. - Identify how the author establishes credibility and authority (ethos). - Analyze the emotional work the text performs — what feelings it activates and when (pathos). - Map the logical structure of the argument — the claims, evidence, and inferential moves (logos). - Consider the historical and cultural context that makes the argument persuasive in its moment (kairos). …