What is an image?
An image is a moment captured in time that can show someone an event or of someone's life. The image can describe something without the use of words or you can pair it with words to give the image different meanings. The image gives an open window that can have thousands of interpretations for each person who sees it.
What is a word?
A word can describe the image and can provide many different meanings to the same picture.
How do they relate to one another in a design?
An image and a word relate to one another because they can both be used together to describe something such as having an image of a swan and pairing it with the word beauty.
What are the consequences of their relationship?
Some consequences that can occur with words and images relationship can be the words giving the image a negative meaning, another could be the word confusing the meaning of the image making it unclear what the message.