Answer:
A play that makes fun of something is called satire.
Explanation:
Satire is an artistic technique that can be used in music, literature, paintings, sculptures and even plays. This technique consists of creating an artistic work with the objective of mocking someone or something, in an acid and often aggressive way.
Usually satires are made to mock and criticize political events or personalities, but they can be made representing several different themes and even other artistic works.
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The main factor that points to the transition from old forms of war to new forms of war during the first world war was the use of technologies, mainly those driven by the industrial revolution, which gave the army a warlike power never seen before and allowed each army had access to fighter planes, tanks, submarines, toxic gases and others that did not exist in previous wars and that caused much greater destruction.