Help ASAP please! Based on the Latin root and suffix, what is the definition of the word
gesticulations as Poe uses it?
A. “quality of using pleasing movements of the hands or arms"
B. "state of entertaining guests through movement"
C. “process of copying the body movements of another”
D. "act of making movements with the body to emphasize ideas"

Part B
Which word or phrase from the passage shows the purpose of the
narrator's "violent gesticulations"?
A. to support his arguments about "trifles" and cause a distraction
B. to help him breathe as he "gasped for breath"
C. to draw the officers' attention to the noise," as they "heard it not"
D. to hide "the noise" that "steadily increased"