Epic
Epic All epics are a type of literary composition that shows similarity in a narrative poem, can have different story lines, but the one thing most epics have in common is the hero. ... The earliest epics, known as primary, or original epics, were shaped from the legends of an age when a nation was conquering and expanding; such is the foundation of the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, of the Iliad and the Odyssey of the Greek Homer, and of the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf. ... The epic, which makes great demands on a poet’s knowledge and skill, has been deemed the most ambitious of poetic forms. A mock epic is a form of satire in which trivial characters and events are treated with all the proud epic conventions and are made to look ridiculous by the lack of harmony. The three types of epic are folk, mock, and literary. A folk epic is such a story that evolves from the people of the civilization and their lives. ... Mock epic also called mock-heroic form of satire that adapts the elevated heroic style of the classical epic poem to a trivial subject.