There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (Classic Books with Holes Board Book)

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The last stanzas bring in a cow and a horse. The final line rhymes“horse” and “course,” perfect end rhymes that create a couplet. The speaker has finally come to the conclusion that the old lady could never accomplish such a feat. It brings the rhyme to a solid ending that’s amusing and satisfying. This is certainly true after the seemingly endless repetition of “She swallowed the.” In this book, it was about a very hungry old lady. She starts off by eating a fly. But obviously she was still hungry so she ate a cat so the cat could eat the fly. Then she swallowed another animal to eat the cat and the fly. This continues through out the book until something happens. It is something that you would think would happen after you eat.

Use the word bank to find synonyms of words from The Lady Who Swallowed a Fly story. Words: woman/lady, old/aged, hog/pig, swallow/consume, wriggle/jiggle, absurd/silly, feline/cat, dog/mutt, pig/hog, expire/die. Or go to the answers. Shortly afterwards, the journal Hoosier Folklore published three versions of the story from different parts of the United States ( Colorado, Georgia and Ohio) in its December 1947 edition. The editor calls it a "cumulative tale", and asks readers for information on its origins. [2] All three versions begin with a lady swallowing the fly and end with her dying after swallowing a horse, but there are variations in what animals are swallowed and the rhymes for each animal. This is a fun story to read to your class and is most likely aimed for lower key stage one children. The story is about a lady who swallows a whole list of animals (fly, spider, bird, cat, dog, pig, goat, cow, donkey and a horse). The lady keeps swallowing animals to catch the last animal she swallowed. The comical element of the story is that the lady dies after she swallows the horse however she should have died after swallowing the bird. When telling the story to young children the words can be turned into a song which adds to the enjoyment element. The design of the book is also interesting and engaging for younger viewers as there are purposely created holes to see into the ladies tummy and all the animals she has swallowed.Repetition: occurs whenever the poet repeats the same images, ideas, structures, words, phrases, etc., in a poem. In this case, the poet depends on repetition throughout. Some might remember that each verse traditionally ends with "I don't know why she swallowed that fly. Perhaps she'll die!" The Colandro version is much less dark, ending each verse with "She won't say why!" instead. The song ends when she coughs up all the animals ("her new friends") after ingesting the cow. The horse of the traditional rhyme (which usually kills her) is absent.

Decca DL 5467, reviewed in Billboard, September 12, 1953, p. 36. The record label also indicates the Mills-Bonne credit. Draw two animals from the story The Old Lady and the Fly and then answer simple questions comparing them, for example, "Which animal is heavier?" Bobby Darin performed the song in duet with 8-year-old Charlene Wong on an episode of The Bobby Darin Show in March 1973. [16] [17] Write about what you would do if you swallowed a fly, like the old lady at the beginning of the rhyme, The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, and draw a picture of the scene.Organization: The logical progression in the book and illustrations is that the old lady just swallows bigger and bigger things, adding to the humor and fantasy of the story. Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Fishes (Little and Big) - Smithsonian Folkways". Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.