Personification is the figure of speech which gives life to inanimate objects.
Examples of personification are:
The flowers are dancing with the breeze.
The wind that gives you a cold embrace.
Hyperbole is used to exaggerate things. Metaphor and simile are used to compare two unlike things.
Answer:
The line from the excerpt that is an example of objective language is "In the course of the construction of the Bridge a number of lives have been lost."
Explanation:
The sentence selected includes real and reliable data about a fact, this is one of the main characteristics of the sentences than use objective language, even when there are moments in the rest of the excerpt that the information contains a point of view or perspective coming from the writer it is not the case of this sentence which makes it clear direct and objective.
A complex sentence has one dependent clause and one independent clause.
Here's some examples;
1. After twenty years, he still had feelings for her.
2. Because my coffee was too cold, I heated it in the microwave.