Epics
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Yes, epics and ballads are types of narrative poems. Epics are long, heroic poems that typically recount the deeds of a legendary hero, while ballads are shorter narrative poems that often tell a story of love, adventure, or tragedy in a song-like format.
Saga, Epic.
That would be an epic poem or a saga.
The Iliad tells a story of a few weeks towards the end of a decade-long Greek piratical raid on the coast of Asia Minor. Other poems, tales and pottery tell more bits about it. There is no book about the Trojan story from antiquity.
In literature, epic refers to a long or extended narrative poem. The poems are typically written with dignified language about a heroine or hero.
The Odyssey by Homer is an epic poem. Epic poems are long, narrative poems chronicling the adventures of an epic hero who embodies the virtues important to the culture producing the poem. Typically, the hero goes out on a journey, overcoming obstacles and defeating (or outwitting) enemies along the way, and then returns home having been changed by his adventures. myth
A ballad is any light, simple song, esp. one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody. A poem is a composition in verse, esp. one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.
An Epic poem
Story poems, set to music, can also be called ballads. A poem that tells a story in called a narrative poem. Narrative poems tell stories that do not have to rhyme. A really, really long story poem is also called an epic.
The correct term for a long narrative poem about a larger-than-life hero would be an epic poem. Epic poems often are important to the history of a nation or the history of the people in the nation.
Saga.