Аннотация
As the reading is an essential part of language learning process, stylistic and critical analysis of texts are well accepted methods among language learning readers. The following article defines a reading skill as essential as other skills in language learning and demonstrates the accurate usage and theory of literary or stylistic devices such as dialogue, repetition, symbolism, simile, metaphor, and personification which are applied on well-known proses “Shuga’s Sign” by Kazakh writer Beimbet Mailin and “Hills like White Elephants” by American author Ernest Hemingway. Thus, each device is carefully explained with a following illustration of analysis of examples from the proses. Therefore, comparison between the usage of stylistic devices in Kazakh and American proses is also provided in order to reveal the similarities and differences of both compositions.