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crags

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Steep, jagged masses of exposed rock or rugged cliff faces, often used to create imagery of wildness, danger, height, or endurance.

Detailed Definition
A crag is a steep, rugged rock face or cliff, often used in poetry for a wild coastal or mountain landscape. In Tennyson’s line, the sea breaks at the “foot of thy crags,” giving the shore a harsh, rocky setting.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Break, break, break, / At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!” (Tennyson) sets waves against steep rocky cliffs; “Gulls wheeled above the black crags” uses the noun in coastal landscape; Crags offer hard consonants that can echo harsh terrain; Romantic and Victorian poets often use crags to make nature appear sublime or forbidding
Additional Notes
“crags” is a less common landscape word in the quoted line and may need lookup for readers unfamiliar with rugged coastal vocabulary.; Found in the poem, Break, Break, Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Also Known As
cliffs precipices escarpments
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