Abstract
In artistic speech, nouns perform not only an informative, but also an aesthetic function. Their use may be due to extralinguistic factors since the theme of the work draws the author to the nouns of certain lexical and grammatical categories. Material, collective, abstract, concrete nouns used in any of the functional styles are also used in artistic speech. At the same time, stylistically neutral nouns are involved in the system of expressive means of the language and acquire the appropriate expressive coloring.