<span>a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.</span>
You need to take the main parts out of the excerpt to figure out what the excerpt is trying to teach you as the reader. After you determine that you must figure out what the main idea is and the topic of the excerpt.
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<span>In Act IV of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's parents thought she was crying because Tybalt was dead. But the real reason is Romeo, she was crying for him since she discovered that he has to leave to exile so she's worried they won't meet again.</span>
