Answer:
C. themes about empowering women
Step-by-step 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 not a feature in colonial literary period.