Match the phrase with the correct figure of speech.

1. thunderous silence
simile
2. dearly departed
personification
3. happy memory
euphemism
4. cool as ice
oxymoron

1. thunderous silence is an oxymoron, 2. dearly departed is an euphemism, 3. happy memory is a personification and 4. cool as ice is a simile.

Explanation: an oxymoron is a figure of speech where contradictory terms are used together (like "thunderous silence"). An euphemism is an indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing (for example saying "dearly departed" referring to someone that passed away). Personification is giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects (like "happy memory"). And a simile is a comparison using the words "like" or "as" (for example "cool as ice").

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.