Full parallelism
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n.
(John Milton “Paradise Lost”)
The author uses the contrasting ideas of
reign/serve
and
Hell/Heav’n
which are antonymous
pairs to achieve an antithetical effect. The mentioned sentence is fixed in dictionaries i.e. belongs to
the etic level. Meanwhile, the whole phrase appears to be a proverb.
A well-known proverb
easy come, easy go
is also a classical example of antithesis meaning
what is achieved easily is easily lost.
And let my liver rather heat with wine than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
(W. Shakespeare “The Merchant of Venice”)
The antonymous pairs
heat
and
cool
make the sentence antithetical.
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