In the sentence "I have told you a million times", the figure of speech is

In the sentence "He was as brave as a lion", the figure of speech is

In the sentence "Time is a thief that steals our youth", the figure of speech used is

The phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword" uses which figure of speech, where an object stands for the wider idea it represents?

In the sentence "The silence in the examination hall was deafening", the figure of speech is

Commencement of words with the same letter:

But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags, white, red, and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things: priceless lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife-blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. In your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held-so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be emptied, that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place-who knows?"Great Stuffer of Bags" is an example of what literary device?