Answer:
C. themes about empowering women
Explanation:
The Colonial period was dominated by Puritan beliefs and thus literature of this period is usually historical, religious (option A), or didactic. The most common genres were tracts, polemics, journals (option D; a journal is a diary), narratives, sermons, and some poetry.
Puritan authors used direct and simple language (option B).
Themes about empowering women were <u>not</u> a feature in colonial literary period.
