How does Tomie dePaola use imagery in 26 Fairmount Avenue?

Imagery:

"[Miss Mae West] didn't dance, but she was all shiny and glittery and all she had to to was walk and talk and everyone in the movie theater laughed and laughed."

"What used to be the newly plowed backyard was roaring down in two muddy streams on either side of the house into the street."