In the beginning of the story, the character Patrick is named Nothing in the story because he said to the class "Listen, you call me Patrick or you call me nothing". Hope this helps!
When he said that it was mostly the badger and rat he didn't do much
The dramatic irony in these lines is that the audience knows that Macduff's wife and whole family has been murdered by Macbeth's orders, but Macduff feels lucky that his family has "not been touched" yet and "were well at peace" when he left them.
Precocious means taking caution before action. the prefix pre means before and the root word is caution. i hope that helped a little...