Read the excerpt. “Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.” The author uses a word with a negative connotation -ADVERSITY- places it in a simile and describes it as a tool for teaching us about ourselves. Choose another word with a negative connotation, create a simile with it, and explain it just as the author did with “adversity.”