The articledeals with the methods of forming pupils’ stylistic competence in general secondary education establishments in the Ukrainian Danube region. We described the methods (stylistic analysis, ...linguistic review, transformation and sentence building, reproduction with the stylistic assignment, stylistic exercises) and devices (simile, interchange, stylistic experiment, modelling, reviewing) while acquiring stylistic knowledge in comprehensive school. There were introduced different kinds of stylistic exercises (lexical and stylistic, phonetical and stylistic, grammatical and stylistic; supplementary, special, aimed to reinforce and master the knowledge and skills and so on). We analyzed the stylistic mistakes, made by the pupils of general secondary education establishments, methods of eliminating such mistakes were recommended.
