"His mother sniffled loudly into her tissue, and his father had a lump in his throat that felt like he'd swallowed a bullfrog." The simile in this excerpt is used to
A) Explain that the father had eaten too much at lunch that day
B) Show that the father was feeling very emotional about dropping his son off at college
C) Describe how angry the father was about the son leaving home to go to school
D) Compare the father's emotions to those of a bullfrog​