Read this passage and identify the purpose that subjective language serves. The importance of this Bridge in its far-reaching effects at once entices and baffles the imagination. At either end of the Bridge lies a great city – cities full of vigorous life.

—Opening Ceremonies of the
New York and Brooklyn Bridge,
Seth Low

The subjective language in this passage is meant to persuade readers and listeners that the Brooklyn Bridge is important to both New York and Brooklyn.

the answer is: apostrophe and allusion.

apostrophe refers to a poetic technique that is used to address an absent individual or an abstract idea/being. allusion on the other hand is a poetic technique that being done by making an indirect reference to other person with a high level of significance (could be historically or culturally significant)