The article deals with the relevance of using stylistic devices in English. It considers English to be a language with a rich vocabulary and phraseology, word-formation capabilities, perfect pho-netic and grammatical structure, and diversified functional styles of the literary language. The article writes about the individual levels of the English language that have been studied continuously for many years. As a result, all this brings to the fore the study of the language from a stylistic point of view. The reason for this is that a language studied grammatically can be studied from a stylistic point of view. Thus, a comprehensive study of the stylistic means of the language, especially the contrast and oxymoron, which are lexical and syntactic stylistic means, is one of the urgent issues facing linguistics.