Which genre uses narrative and poetic techniques to tell a story?

The genre that uses narrative and poetic techniques to tell a story is called the narrative poem. A narrative poem is a kind of poem that tells a certain story and is usually told through  a narrator. The order of the connected events in this type of poem is represented verbally driving characters into a specific plot. Narrative poems can be a story about love, about family and of course about heroism. Epics, mock-epics and ballads are types of narrative poems.