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There are three different things here: the sonata(-allegro) form, the (multi-movement) sonata form, and the title sonata.
The sonata(-allegro) form is a form of one movement. It's usually fast (hence the allegro) and the big structure is ABA, where the first A is called exposition, B is development, and the second A is recapitulation. Sometimes there's a ...
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