The current article represents a review of the literature on critical discourse analysis (CDA) and critical stylistics. The article aims at showing the differences between the role of critical stylistic vs. critical discourse analysis. It is well known that both critical discourse analysis and critical stylistics uncover ideologies delivered by text producers. The article presents an account of background approaches. Hence, topics such as stylistics, systemic functional linguistics, and the terms transitivity and modality all are discussed in this current article.