Read the sentences and answer the question that follows:

I stared at the mountain of homework on my desk. It would take me a million years to complete all these assignments!

Why does the narrator use the phrase a million years in this text?

A. To explain why she had waited so long to begin working on her homework

B. To give an approximate amount of time over which her homework increased

C. To playfully exaggerate the time needed to complete her homework

D. To provide a literal prediction of the time required to do the assignments