How does Jerry Spinelli use imagery in Smiles to Go?

Imagery:

"As usual, Mi-Su and I went on with the game, but something was different. The squares on the board seemed to float under my little silver top hat."

"Ninety-three million miles of space in front of me, and every inch of it seemed packed with the things I was afraid of: high places, cramped places, dark places, thousand-leggers, speed, flying, death, change, time, pain, failure, criticism, roller coasters, train tracks, being wrong, being smelly, being late, being stupid, being rejected, black mambos, leeches, hantavirus, losing, deep water, uncertainty, being buried alive, being caught being afraid, myself."