What does the following line mean" My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin"

metaphor

Explanation:

The phrase does not use "like" or "as", like a simile would, it is not giving an object a human characteristic, and it is not trying to make a reference, so it is a metaphor. Hope this helped

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It would be a metaphor.

Explanation:

The speaker compares her stomach to a split melon, suggesting that she feels torn or indecisive about something