Read the sentence from "The Wise Old Man and the Ferocious Leopard." "This is an old story about a very ferocious leopard." What shows that this statement is an opinion?

It is influenced by personal feelings.

Explanation:

An opinion is subjective and based on the personal feelings of the speaker. They may not represent the facts because they rely on what the speaker thinks about the situation. Facts on the hand are objective and are established by statistics, history, and other reliable sources.

In the statement above it is the personal opinion of the speaker that the story is old. Objective data like dates would help to establish if the story was really old.