In a midsummer night's dream, bottom, flute, and snout have names that are puns on
a. malapropisms.
b. their trade or employment.
c. their physical appearance.
d. famous people of that day.

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bottom, Flute, and Snout have names that are puns on their trade or employment.

Since Bottom is a weaver, and a 'bottom' was a type of spindle for holding yarn to be woven.

Flute is an apprentice bellows-mender: the pipe the air comes through in a bellows is a flute.

And Snout is a tinker, he mends pots and pans: snout is another word for 'nozzle' as on a kettle or pouring pot.

The other options are not correct because malapropisms refers to the use of an incorrect word instead of another.

Their physical appearance doesn't make reference to their names

And people on that day are not connected to how their names make reference to elements of their way of making a living.

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