The answer is: It progresses slowly.
In the lines from "Macbeth," the protagonist refers to the slow transition of time with a feeling of despair and hopelessness. In one of Shakespeare's most famous soliloquies, Macbeth expresses the insignificant meaning of life and the monotonous beating of time after learning his wife has died and he is about to lose his power.
Sentences 2, 3, and 4, best elude that Divine Providence was involved in the fate of Plymouth's Colony.
The first sentence is filler information that does not talk about God or Divine Providence at all
The common noun here is "frog" as the only other noun, Many, is not a common noun - it's a proper noun.
"frog" here is the object of the sentence: it's the object of the verb "caught" of which the subject is Mary
A dramatic irony is usually found in a book like drama you know what is happening but the main character doesn't know