I ran as fast as i could to the top of the hill. I could hear Marley and Ian running behind me, but their voices were growing fainter. They were snails and i was a grasshopper leaping and jumping and leaving them behind!

this is an example of a metaphor. the speaker states that they are a grasshopper, and that marley and ian are snails.

Explanation: a metaphor is sorta when you conpare something by saying it is something that it is not. its close to a simile, which compares something by using the words like or as.

A. Metaphor

Because I just got it right on e2020

the support that the author, uses in the article facing our fears is a): a definition of the part of the brain called the amygdala.

he takes neuroscientist joseph ledoux's words by telling that by falling to distinguish between evolutionary old systems located in the amygdala and newer systems, centered in the prefrontal cortex, doctors have conflated non conscious threat circuits in the brain with circuits that underlie the conscious experience of fear. that, the author says, "leads ledoux to the jarring conclusion that the amygdala, a decades-old centerpiece of the brain's fear circuit, does not underlie the conscious feeling of fear".

despite this, the author points out in the article that that is a controversial notion and that evidence, in animal and humans, supports the idea that core emotions can exist outside of conscious awareness.