How does the author use imagery in the memoir, Almost a Woman?

Although her style is largely journalistic, the author incorporates occasional thematic imagery into her writing. For example, she compares her lovemaking with Ulvi to dancing: "Our lovemaking was a dance, each part of our bodies attuned to its complement in the other, as if we were not two but one." Similarly, she equates the room where she works in Fisher Scientific to a stage: "It was an enormous stage lit on all sides, with an audience that could see every action from any angle. A daily theater in the round." These images expand the themes of drama and dance that run through the book.