Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
I saw my mother beside me
doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that
of a corpse and realised with pain
that she was as old as she looked but soon
put that thought away, and looked out at Young
Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes.
Which amongst the following option has used same poetic device in its underlined phrase as used in the expression 'ashen like that of a corpse' ?

Options

A. He was a lion in the battle.
B. The flood swallowed more than a dozen villages.
C. He walked as slow as a snail.
D. The tree blocks the free flow of water.