Epizeugma involves placing the governing verb at either the very beginning or very end of the sentence.

Examples:

"Cry out to the hills, to the meadows, to the Heavens above..."

"By fair means or foul, by any means possible, I triumph."

Mesozeugma is the use of a unifying verb in the middle of a series of clauses.

Examples:

"As his prospects fell, so, too, his spirits."

"His fist hit my face; my face, the floor."

Governing Noun

Diazeugma is a construction wherein one subject governs several verbs.

"You have mocked my beliefs, scorned all that I hold beautiful, and scoffed at the notion of common decency."

Considerable debate exists on the precise difference between zeugma and syllepsis. While syllepsis is generally considered to be a specific type of zeugma in which the two modified elements are not parallel in grammar or meaning, arguments frequently occur over whether a specific example is zeugma, syllepsis, or both.