What is the difference between the first and first? Give examples and teach the difference between them for my assignment of English, plz.)

he difference is essentially that 'first' relates simply to the order of events (First you do this, and THEN you do that,...) while 'at first' relates to an earlier stage of something as contrasted with some later development, e.g.

Explanation:

the rhetorical devices that he used in "common sense" are syntax for his sentence structure and pathos for his emotion against the british unfairly treating the "americans" and logos of what documents that what happened to the pilgrims when they had the mayflower compact and how that the british were wanting to have one religion but the compact said for any religion to be accepted.