Allusion as a stylistic device shares an aesthetic-cognitive function common to all
stylistic devices, which consists, on the one hand, of gradually revealing the content to the
reader, and on the other hand, of influencing his aesthetic feelings with the help of form. One
of linguists in his researches admitted that in the case of an allusion, there is a significant
advantage in the direction of the cognitive aspect due to the presence of a powerful associative
fund, which adds to it an increased semantic load, which was called the hyper semanticization
of an allusive word or phrase in artistic text.
