"Paradise Lost," e.g.

EPIC

Think of a grand, long-form poem that often recounts heroic deeds or mythological events, like Homer’s works. This genre’s name also describes something vast in scale or importance.

This clue is asking for a term that describes what "Paradise Lost" is an example of. "Paradise Lost" is a famous long poem by John Milton, and poems of this grand scale and serious subject matter are called epics. The word "e.g." signals that the answer is a category or genre, not the title itself. So, the answer is "EPIC," the literary term for such works.