Atext that tells a story is called a text.

A text that tells a story is called a narrative text.

Explanation:

A narrative text is a text that tells a story from a particular point of view, usually aimed at entertaining people and engaging them in an imaginative experience. To develop a narrative text, authors generally pose problematic events and guide the reader up the resolution of that event. Although they can be based on fact, narrative texts are often fictional.

the answer is fantasy

reading poetry is challenging when you don't have or very little of social context and culture schema.

solution: read the introduction, the norm, or even explaination if you still dont get it.