I've probably mentioned this before, but just in case not:
If you took an "AP English" class (mine was equivalent to the modern "AP English Literature"; I don't think there was a Literature vs Language breakdown back then) in the 80s or 90s, and then took the official AP test for possible college credit, the test graders didn't care whether the essay was 5-paragraph-essay shaped or not.
I know this because one of my parents volunteered to grade some practice exams for one of my school's AP English classes (not mine; no nepotism occurred here), which were direct excerpts from actual AP exams from a year or two back. So I got to see what the last couple years' rubric looked like. The format of the essay didn't matter, so long as it made sensible arguments that were supported by what was actually in the work being analyzed or critiqued, and that it showed an understanding of literary techniques discussed in class.
To get a good score, you couldn't hack the system with a ChatGPT-style 5PE-shaped pile of word barf. It actually had to be a good analysis, at least by the standards of a college-level introductory English lit class.
David Nash
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