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What is a poem that tells a story called?

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A poem that tells a story in called a narrative poem. Narrative poems tell stories that do not have to rhyme.

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A poem that tells a story is called a?
a poem that tells a story is called ballad.
A poem that tells a story is a poem?
Yes it is a poem if it tells a story if it is set out like a poem in verses or lines and not long sentences like in a book. It also could be called a ballad which is a poem that rhymes and tells a...
What is a long poem that tells the story of a hero called?
This could be a ballad or an epic, such as the Illiad or the Fairy Queene.
What is it called when a character in the story tells the story?
Ir's when the story becomes an autobiography. This would be the case of a first person narrative - the second most popular narrative form after third person narrative.
What do you call a poem that tells a story?
I think it is a Ballad