How does Jane Yolen use imagery in Favorite Folktales from Around the World?

Imagery:

"I cannot help thinking that a little dog, handsome, faithful and engaging, would be the very thing to make me happy, so I declare that he who brings me the most perfect little dog shall be my successor." (True Loves and False; The White Cat, p. 95)

"Once upon a time, and a very good time it was too, when the streets were paved with penny loaves and houses were whitewashed with buttermilk and the pigs ran around with knives and forks in their snouts shouting: 'Eat me, eat me!' there lived a King of Ireland and he had three sons named Art, Neart and Ceart." (Wonder Tales, Tall Tales, and Brag; The King of Ireland's Son, p. 248)