Midrashic literary tools
- Intertextuality, Allusions, Echoes
- Category:Symbolism
- Category:Chiasms
- Paronomasia (serious word play, puns)
- Gematria/isopsephy and Category:Numerical symbolism in general
- Typology
- Inclusio
- Merism
- Acrostic
- Polyvalence
- Double entendre
- Juxtaposition
- No superfluity
- Parallelism
- Janus parallelism
- Category:Pardes (interpretive "layer") distinctions
- Genre
See also
Various schools of midrashic interpretation provide various rule sets.